Word: englande
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...When Davis says that "glorious old Hollywood" was in color, and "small comic England" in black and white, he's referring to the countries as well as the movies. After the war the U.S., the new top empire, rebounded into posterity; Britain, relinquishing India and its centuries of world rule, faced shortages of food, gasoline, all earthly essentials. The grinding deprivation of this grim landscape is superbly evoked by David Thomson, another movie-mad poet, in Try to Tell the Story, his new memoir of growing up in London around the same time as Davies in Liverpool. Davies shows...
Coming in to the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Race Championships this past weekend, Harvard had achieved two-thirds of its yearly objective. It had previously qualified for the ICSA Women’s National Championships and the ICSA/Gill National Dinghy Championships. The final piece was qualifying for the ICSA Team Race National Championships in San Francisco the final weekend of May, a spot it could earn with a top-three finish at the two-day affair this weekend...
...epidemiologists begin to crunch the data on H1N1, we should have a better idea of how it spreads - and how dangerous it might be. New studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate that older people in the U.S. also appear to have escaped the virus - just 5% of U.S. patients with confirmed cases of H1N1 are 51 or older. Still, since health officials have so far focused mostly on outbreaks in schools, it's possible they are simply missing older cases. "This is an evolving outbreak and we're still learning how this virus works," said...
...brilliant lyrics to protest the atrocities of the 1960s, songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." But four-chord, straight-ahead folk music proved, well, boring after a while, and Dylan betrayed the folk pedants by going electric--"Judas!" they cried in England--and the ideology-encrusted hard-liner Pete Seeger tried to pull the plug on Dylan's breakthrough performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival...
...collegiate mainstream with hundreds of teams across the nation. The highest echelon of this burgeoning sport was on display last weekend, as Harvard's two "A" squads—the men's Redline and women's Quasars—traveled to Hanover, N.H. to compete in the New England College Regionals. To see how the Crimson representatives fared, read on after the jump...